I am a cognitive psychologist-turned-computer scientist. I am passionate about applying insights from the behavioural neurosciences to design digital technology that is sensitive to human limitations and biases, particularly in relation to attention and self-regulation.
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Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
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| ulrik.lyngs@cs.ox.ac.uk | |
| ulriklyngs.com |
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| 2016 — 2020 | DPhil in Computer Science, University of Oxford |
| 2012 — 2013 | MSc in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford |
| 2011 — 2016 | MA in the Study of Religion & Cognitive Psychology, Aarhus University |
| 2007 — 2011 | BA in the Study of Religion & Psychology, Aarhus University |
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| 2018 | Best Paper Award (€500), 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam |
| 2018 | Student Research Competition Grant ($500), ACM CHI’18 |
| 2017 | DOMUS Prize for Outstanding Research Communication (£500), Linacre College, University of Oxford |
| 2017 | Designing for Curiosity Workshop Grant (€400), ACM CHI’17 |
| 2017 | Student Research Competition Grant ($500), ACM CHI’17 |
| 2013 | Lienhard & Bagby Research Grant (£1,000), Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, Uni. of Oxford |
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| conference proceedings | Lyngs, U., Lukoff, K., Slovak, P., Binns, R., Slack, A., Inzlicht, M., Kleek, M. V., Shadbolt, N. (2019). Self-Control in Cyberspace: Applying Dual Systems Theory to a Review of Digital Self-Control Tools CHI ’19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Honourable Mention |
| workshop paper | Lyngs, U. (2019). Putting Self-Control at the Centre of Digital Wellbeing CHI’19 workshop, Designing for Digital Wellbeing |
| conference proceedings | Binns, R., Lyngs, U., van Kleek, M., Zhao, J., Shadbolt, N. (2018). Third party tracking in the mobile ecosystem Proceedings of the 10th International ACM Web Science Conference 2018 Best Paper |
| conference proceedings | Lyngs, U., Binns, R., van Kleek, M., Shadbolt, N. (2018). So, Tell Me What Users Want, What They Really, Really Want! CHI EA ’18 (alt.chi): Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| conference proceedings | Binns, R., van Kleek, M., Veale, M., Lyngs, U., Zhao, J., Shadbolt, N. (2018). It’s Reducing a Human Being to a Percentage’: Perceptions of Justice in Algorithmic Decisions CHI ’18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| conference proceedings | Lyngs, U. (2018). A Cognitive Design Space for Supporting Self-Regulation of ICT Use CHI EA ’18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| research report | Zhao, J., Lyngs, U., Shadbolt, N. (2018). What privacy concerns do parents have about children’s mobile apps, and how can they stay SHARP? Research report, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford |
| conference proceedings | Lyngs, U., McKay, R. (2017). ‘It’s More Fun With My Phone’: A Replication Study of Cell Phone Presence and Task Performance Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society |
| conference proceedings | Lyngs, U. (2017). It’s More Fun With My Phone’: A Replication Study of Cell Phone Presence and Task Performance CHI EA ’17 Extended Abstracts, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · |
| workshop paper | Lyngs, U. (2017). Curiosity, ICTs, and Attention Management CHI’17, Designing for Curiosity: An Interdisciplinary Workshop |
| journal article | Lyngs, U., Cohen, E., Hattori, W., Newson, M. & Levin, D. (2016). Hearing in Colour: How Expectations Distort Perception of Skin Tone Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42 (12), 2068-2076 |
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| 2018 | So, Tell Me What Users Want, What They Really, Really Want!, AI, Society, and the Media, BBC Radio Theatre, New Broadcasting House, London |
| 2018 | Hacking the Attention Economy, Hackathon at CodeBase, Edinburgh, organised by the UnBias project, University of Oxford |
| 2018 | Evaluating Anti-Distraction Browser Extensions for Facebook, Human Centred Computing research seminar, CS Dept., University of Oxford |
| 2017 | Ulysses in Cyberspace: How Anti-Distraction Apps Can Guide Digital Design, DOMUS Research Prize talk, Linacre College, University of Oxford |
| 2017 | ICTs and Attention Management: Evaluating the Emerging Anti-Distraction Market, 2017 Oxford Computer Science Conference, Uni. of Oxford |
| 2017 | Battle of the Social Machines: Attention Management in the Information Age, Being Responsible in Research: Opportunities and Challenges, workshop held by the Human Centred Computing Group, Uni. of Oxford |
| 2017 | Distraction and Self-Regulation in Social Machines, The Theory and Practice of Social Machines, Jesus College, University of Oxford |
| 2017 | How to Build Minimally-Distracting Technology, PubhD, science communication and pints, St Aldate’s Tavern, Oxford |
| 2017 | Attention Management in the Information Age, All-hands meeting in the SOCIAM: The Theory and Practice of Social Machines project, held in Brockenhurst, UK |
| 2015 | Religion: A Culturally Evolved Tool for Self-Control, Research meeting in the ‘Religion, Cognition and Culture’ unit at the Institute of Culture and Society, Aarhus University |
| 2014 | Fundamental Motivations and Risk-Taking: Loss Aversion in Context, 26th Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, Natal, Brazil |
| 2012 | Effort, Loss Aversion and Religion, Homo Experimentalis: Experimental Approaches in The Study of Religion, Brno, Czech Republic |
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| 2018 | What the Anti-Distraction Market Tells Us About Digital Technology and Self-Regulation, Connected Life 2018, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford |
| 2018 | A Cognitive Design Space for Supporting Self-Regulation of ICT Use, 3rd Symposium on Computing and Mental Health, CHI’18, Montreal, Canada |
| 2017 | Curiosity, ICTs and Attention Management: Evaluating the Emerging Anti-Distraction Market, Designing for Curiosity. Workshop at CHI’17, Denver, Colorado |
| 2017 | Ulysses in Cyberspace: Evaluating the Anti-Distraction Market, Connected Life 2017: Digital Inequalities, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford |
| 2017 | “It’s More Fun With My Phone”: A Replication Study of Cell Phone Presence and Task Performance, CogSci 2017, 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London |
| 2014 | Wild Cooperation: Studying Real-World Reciprocity Using Couchsurfing.org, Morality: Evolutionary Origins and Cognitive Mechanisms, Central European University, Budapest |
| 2011 | Priming Effects of Religious Concepts on Moral Judgment – Between Mean Values and Variation, CogSci 2011, 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA. |
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| 2019 | Reproducible research with R Markdown TIER Faculty Development Workshop, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford |
| 2013 | Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology Oxbridge International Summer School Organised and taught a 2-week course with group and individual tutorials for students aged 15-18. |
| 2010 — 2011 | Philosophy, theory of science, and university history Dept. for the Study of Religion, Aarhus University Taught a weekly supplementary seminar to a class of ~20 undergraduate students. |
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| 2018 | Our paper ‘Third Party Tracking in the Mobile Ecosystem’ covered in the Financial Times, BBC, The Times, Business Insider, and more |
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| 2018 — | Steering group, Transparent Statistics in Human-Computer Interaction |
| 2017 — | Ad-hoc reviewer, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing |
| 2016 — | Ad-hoc reviewer, ACM CHI Conference |
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| 2017 — present | Web developer SOCIAM.org, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford Built the current version of sociam.org (which archives the outputs of a 5.5 year EPSCR research endeavour involving 55+ researchers, 40+ independent projects, and 400+ publications) from scratch in Drupal 7, assisted by two summer interns. Ongoing maintenance, feature development, and content curation. |
| 2013 — 2016 | Festival Producer and Manager Institute of Art and Ideas, London Generated ideas and wrote programme copy for 250+ panel debates for the internationally renowned philosophy and music festival HowTheLightGetsIn; interviewed (600+) and booked (150+) world- leading thinkers, including Cory Doctorow, Aubrey de Grey, and Simon Baron-Cohen; led and managed a research team of two full-time and music team of three full-time staff. |
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| 2018 | Invited participant at the Global Dialogue for Happiness, World Government Summit, Dubai |
| 2017 | Leading for Impact fellowship, 4-month leadership training programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford |
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| - Programming, data analysis and visualisation in R (tidyverse), Python, and D3.js |
| - Reproducible research with dynamic documents in R Markdown (bookdown, xaringan, pagedown) + LaTeX |
| - Web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Drupal, Hugo, blogdown, Jekyll + GitHub) |
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| 2019 | Dashboard for visualising facebook use, developed with R, shiny, and flexdashboard, deployed on shinyapps.ioOriginally developed for research study on Facebook use among Oxford University students in the autumn of 2018 |
| 2019 | oxforddown, R package for writing an Oxford University thesis with R Markdown |
| 2018 | chi-proc-rmd-template and chi-ea-template, R packages for writing ACM CHI submissions with R Markdown |